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[rydra_wong]

monanotlisa wrote a thought-provoking post about her experiences with what she summarizes in the cut tag as "[a]ble bodies and disability, genetics and appearances":

monanotlisa: This is not the long post I've been meaning to make

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[recessional]

I have been trying to think about this shit with regards to my Stupidly Psychosomatic/Responsive Body and the ongoing depression but it's very hard to track it much without it devolving to a kind of utter despair.

I unfortunately at least at this point have the kind of muscle/connective tissue that, if I push it too hard, will seize and stay seized and then take (thus far) several months of IMS-heavy physio visits to sort out. I'd hate to think where I'd be before IMS, since literally nothing else has the immediate measurable effects.

(Also IMS is miserable. It FEELS like exactly what it is, which is "here we are going to take this needle and stab it into the malfunctioning tissue as a kind of force-restart for both connective tissue and nerve-impulses, and then let the minor-injury bloodflow-heavy healing take place.")